Glory Quote by Robert Penn Warren

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

— Robert Penn Warren

“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t…

— Robert Penn Warren

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

— Robert Penn Warren

“There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad…

— Robert Penn Warren

“No, the Boss corrected, I'm not a lawyer. I know some law. ... but I'm not a lawyer. That's why I can see what…

— Robert Penn Warren

[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Those were the ones which would turn loose their grip on the branch before long-- not in any breeze, the fibers would just relax,…

— Robert Penn Warren

“Sometimes sleep gets to be a serious and complete thing. You stop going to sleep in order that you may be able to get…

— Robert Penn Warren

“He thought of night coming on. He thought of the loneliness of tonight, this first night in the ground. This, he thought, was the…

— Robert Penn Warren

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

— Robert Penn Warren

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

— Robert Penn Warren

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall…

— Robert Penn Warren